{"id":63452,"date":"2022-03-17T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63452"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:35:08","slug":"former-proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-serves-as-a-brown-face-of-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63452","title":{"rendered":"Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio serves as a brown face of white supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio serves as a brown face of white supremacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

MSNBC<\/a>
\n2022-03-15<\/p>\n

Julio Ricardo Varela<\/strong><\/a>, MSNBC Opinion Columnist<\/p>\n

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White supremacy will always attract nonwhite believers.<\/em><\/p>\n

It should come as no surprise that there are several Latino male white nationalists<\/a> who have gotten disproportionate attention in recent years, but in a country that keeps misunderstanding why the U.S. Latino community is nowhere near close to being a monolith, it is critical to examine how this notion of Latino white nationalists still feels strange to some.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s news that Enrique Tarrio<\/a>, the former Afro-Cuban<\/a> leader of the Proud Boys<\/a>, was arrested<\/a> on federal charges surrounding the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol<\/a> has sparked some interest in an apparently paradoxical reality: nonwhite Latino men worshiping at the altar of American white supremacy and providing cover<\/a> to ensure that white nationalists stay mainstream.<\/p>\n

As a journalist who\u2019s been covering Latino communities for years, I know that this supposed paradox has never existed and that the country\u2019s estimated 62.1 million Latinos<\/a> have ideologies from one extreme to the other. American whiteness is a prize; it is where the power lies, and people like Tarrio would rather bask in that whiteness than fight against it and appear too \u201cwoke<\/a>,\u201d even it means tearing down democracy.<\/p>\n

Non-Latino media have long been obsessed with proving the claim<\/a> that more and more Latinos are longing to become white, which ignores the fact that being Latino is not just a sole racial construct<\/a> but more of a messy combination with ethnicity. Voices from within the U.S. Latino community have responded by diving into the complexities of what it is to be Latino in modern-day America<\/a>. While it is apparent that the country has become<\/a> more multiethnic and multiracial, the quest for what Cristina Beltr\u00e1n<\/a> calls \u201cmultiracial whiteness<\/a>\u201d will always have an appeal in our community…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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